Date of Death: September 13, 1881 (age 57) in Bristol, Rhode Island
Resting place: Swan Point Cemetery in Providence, Rhode Island
Highest Rank/Office Held: Major General (1847-1865)
Other Significant Ranks/Offices Held: 30th United Sates Senator from Rhode Island (May 29, 1866-May 25, 1869)
Significant Events: Wars:
Mexican-American War
Mexican-American War
American civil war
----First Battle of the Bull Run
--Burnside's North Carolina Expedition
Battle of Roanoke Island
Battle of new Bern
Maryland Campaign
Battle of Fredericksburg
Battle of Sout Mountain
----Battle of Antietam
----Battle of Fredericksburg
Knoxville Campaign
Overland Campaign
Battle of the Wilderness
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
Battle of North Anna
Seige of Pettersburg
Battle of the Crater
Battle of Cold Harbor
Battle of Fredricksburg: December 1862; Led by General Burnside. Robert E. Lee retreated and left Richmon to Burnside. Meeting Lee outside of Frericksburg, Burnside ordered his troopes to attack. Lee and his men reatreted to the hills above Fredrickisburg (which was very good for defence). As the Union Troops went up the hill the Confederate attcked! Burnside and his men charged six times, and every time the Confederate retreated. It was one the Union's worst defeats. A month later Burnside was relieved of Command.
Battle of Antietam: Fought in September 17, 1862; Near Sharpsburg, Maryland. Was also part of the Maryland campaingn. After pursuing General Lee into Maryland, Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan attacked Lee's army. At dawn (september 17), Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's corps mounted a powerful assault on Lee's left flank. In the afternoon Major Gen. Ambrose Burnside captured a stone building. Then out of nowhere, Confederate Gen A.P. Hill's troops attacked Burnside and forced him to retreat which ended th battle.
First Battle of the Bull Run: July 21, 1861 near Manassas, Virginia. First major battl of the Civil War. Also know as The First Battle of Manassas (what Confederates called it and what is still sometimes used in the South). Con. forces and Union forces met in Manassas. They Both planed to attack the other's left flank. The con figured out the Union's plann and met the with evem more troops. The Union fled North and the Con did not follow.
Ambrose Everett Burnside
Author: Isaac Wetzel and Dustin McNeal
Date Born: May 23, 1824 in Liberty, Indiana
Date of Death: September 13, 1881 (age 57) in Bristol, Rhode Island
Resting place: Swan Point Cemetery in Providence, Rhode Island
Highest Rank/Office Held: Major General (1847-1865)
Other Significant Ranks/Offices Held: 30th United Sates Senator from Rhode Island (May 29, 1866-May 25, 1869)
Significant Events: Wars:
American civil war
----First Battle of the Bull Run
--Burnside's North Carolina Expedition
Battle of Roanoke Island
Battle of new Bern
Maryland Campaign
----Battle of Antietam
----Battle of Fredericksburg
Knoxville Campaign
Overland Campaign
Battle of the Wilderness
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
Battle of North Anna
Seige of Pettersburg
Battle of the Crater
Battle of Cold Harbor
Battle of Fredricksburg: December 1862; Led by General Burnside. Robert E. Lee retreated and left Richmon to Burnside. Meeting Lee outside of Frericksburg, Burnside ordered his troopes to attack. Lee and his men reatreted to the hills above Fredrickisburg (which was very good for defence). As the Union Troops went up the hill the Confederate attcked! Burnside and his men charged six times, and every time the Confederate retreated. It was one the Union's worst defeats. A month later Burnside was relieved of Command.
Battle of Antietam: Fought in September 17, 1862; Near Sharpsburg, Maryland. Was also part of the Maryland campaingn. After pursuing General Lee into Maryland, Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan attacked Lee's army. At dawn (september 17), Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's corps mounted a powerful assault on Lee's left flank. In the afternoon Major Gen. Ambrose Burnside captured a stone building. Then out of nowhere, Confederate Gen A.P. Hill's troops attacked Burnside and forced him to retreat which ended th battle.
First Battle of the Bull Run: July 21, 1861 near Manassas, Virginia. First major battl of the Civil War. Also know as The First Battle of Manassas (what Confederates called it and what is still sometimes used in the South). Con. forces and Union forces met in Manassas. They Both planed to attack the other's left flank. The con figured out the Union's plann and met the with evem more troops. The Union fled North and the Con did not follow.
Profession: soldier, inventor, industrialist
Political Party: Republican
Nickname: Burn
Allegiance:United States of America Union
Service/Branch: Union Army
Alma mater: United States Military Academy
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Refrences:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Burnsidehttp://www.civilwarhome.com/burnbio.htm
http://www.nndb.com/people/587/000028503/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ambrose_Burnside2.jpg
[[http://Battle of Fredricksburg|Mexican-American War]]
Battle of Fredricksburg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ambrose_Burnside_Signature.svg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Burnside%2B1stRI.jpg
http://americanhistory.about.com/od/civilwarbattles/p/cwbattle_bull1.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Bull_Run
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Antietam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fredericksburg